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Edht4 Open The act allowirg student ac fies which went into effect much needed and long overd that protects students from fh previously would have gne I Sponsored by New York's S a Conservative-Republic Educational RI and Priva funds to any^ that disal to their own files. Originally the law was critical abuses in public sch cases parents were- not ever kept on their children. But wb drafted, colleges receiving fe included. The need for open files for Ieen evident for many yearE documented in which students The Game Cromer's egotistic TO THE EDITOR: Chuck Cromer's criticism of the spring semester film schedule (The Gamecock, Jan. 13) as being "weak" is highly unjustified. My first reaction to your pseudo criticism is to say that you should pay a little more respect to your objects of criticism, whether good or bad. Writing off Rebel Without a Cause as a film for "former campus militants" not only shows your ignorance of the film itself but ignorance of a basic premise of criticism--your purpose is not simply to expound your own personal responses to the film but also to give reasons and justifications for such responses. Simply saying that a film is good or bad is not enough--you must tell why you believe it is good or bad so that the reader can, In turn, react to your criticism. You gave the impression that Rebel is only another typical protest film. It is not. This "yarn about a SO's teenager" preceded the rebellious 60's and therefore cannot be taken within the contest of what went on during the Sixties. As with any film, it should stand alone. With regard to the January February film schedule, I consider it to be the strongest listing of films for this campus for the past two and one-half years. The Cinematic Arts Committee has done an ex THE GAME( JIM H ERSH sTUVE PARKER The Gamaece is the official student Unliversity of South Carolina and is publisl Mondays and Thuvudays, during the fall and once a week durIng the svmmer by Publications and communications. Opinions expressed in The Gameteck era and not those of the University of South Caro Change of address ftrms, subscription correspondence should be sent to The 01 UsC, Columbia, 292W. subscription rates and 52 for the summer sessions. Second class postage paid at Columbia. >rials files: S1 :ess to theirpe nal or diser in November, was' tained 1 Lie. It is a measure informa dse information that records, mdetected. With i en. James Buckley, often rel an, the Family and hurl ay Act denies Federal for a jo lows students access When little c proposed to correct Howeve ools, where in some several allowed to see files For ii en the act was finally student leral funds were also because studenti public schools has also bec . Cases have been parents were judged unfairly Parents rock's Mail al ramblings cellent job in booking films for this semester. "Filling up time slots," indeed! The only thing you have suc ceeded in doing is to give a very disorganized rehashing of the film schedule, sprinkled with your own egotistical ramblings. You need to take your column a little more seriously if you expect your readers to do so in return. , CLAUDE MATHEWS Registration blues TO THE EDITOR: Once again it is time to complain about registration. Ignoring all of the hassles and usual in conveniences everyone meets, I would like to point out the fallacies of preregistration. First of all, the different departments seem to have in consistent rules as to who may preregister. I was told you may only preregister in your major or if the course is above the three hundred level. Yet many freshmen and sophomores I have talked to claim they preregistered in many, if not all, of their subjects. I found out Saturday that even if you do preregister it does not guarantee anything. I preregistered in one course, my major, as I was told to do. 1 Sluckily got all of the course cards t< O C K the writer's please inctu. edit el1 Iett4 Columbia News Editer SILL PRATT set dt PETE F5HELEY newspaper of the ed twice Weekly, on spring semester and Assistant sports U he USC Board of MARK LEARY those of the editors *ntertainment, Ed in..CHUCK CROME1 requests and other rmecock, Orawer A, Copy Editers are s3 per semester JACK BAINE FRANK DELOA( LISA ALTsCHWA S.C. CROLm SEm=RA tudents iminated against because their I msubstantiated, sometimes total tion that somehow slipped in io way to check this false inforn rnained on the student's permanei him when he went to apply to a c b. the act was passed into law last I riticism from public school ol r, colleges reacted harshly be sections of the law. ristance, the law made all part records accessible. This created many letters of recommends were written under confidenti ause it gave students the opportun 'financial income statements, ei did not want them to see it. No ACAI S ECRE YOU PEO:LE :U8T DO)T match my schedule. The last card I went to pick up was for the class I preregistered in, and was told my name was not on the list. No amount of reasoning, pleading, or yelling could prove that I had preregistered. I had to take what was left, an 8 a.m., and start again on my other classes. Before I left, I heard a rumor icock welcomes letters from readers. Letters shoulc They must be signed with the writer's true name. F name will be withheld If circumstances warrant. de your mailing address and a telephone number w~ ,rs, not for content, but to meet our space ilmitatic Phes Editor MARl MASENG difor Phoographers UltorMURRY SILL COURTNEY DICELY RUSS JEFFCOAT DONNA SISE trDES GARDNER SHELIA STEPHENS WARREN CLAYTON JOHNNY DRUMMINGS RICK WIDDIFIELD SCOTT KEARNS HE ~GER Staff Artist NE .IAuAI uWALTON protec Ies con- These and other pr ly false, tention, and got it w to their added to the act Jam their files, except iation, it written before Jai it record statements. ollege or The act, with its ar both students and scl all it got Students can check ficials. everything is accural ause of information that sho At USC officials in s of the act will be followed, roblems trouble checking the tion or Although the act , ity and Congress and school ity tte mended for finally i en if the allows students acce 0e NtSTARtD C 0UTICS" that everything would be com puterized next year. I am not sure that would solve all of the problems, but It would give the administration and departments something on which to blame their mistakes. Come to think of it, they do that now. Can't someone out there straighten out registration? PAUL I. NICHOLS I be limited toe aSingle sublect and a maxImum of seudonyms or Other 8alise will not be used, but To assist us in verifying the Identity of writers, here you can be reached; We reserve the right,to ns. Address: Campus OpinIon, Drawer A, USC, Advertisisg Manager , ART FRANK AdvertisinB Staff BOSBY AIKEN PAUL PATITUCCI KRISTI PHILLIPS Production Manager TERRY COON Production ST EVEN B. FOILES KATHY MASON LINDA MCKENNA JACK SOWELL MICKEY TRIMARCHI BETSY WILCOX tion oblems in the act needed at ith an amendment that was . 1. Now students can view for confidential statements i. 1 or parents' income iendments, is one with which ool administrators can live. their files to make 'sure e, and still not interfere with ald be kept in confidence. ficate that all portions of the so students should have no ir files. was a long time in coming, administrators can be com; reaching a compromise "bat ss to their files. Untimely raise Some Congressmen are just too hard to take. With the economy faltering and unemployment rising to un comfortable levels, South Carolina Rep. Mendel J. Davis, a Democrat, said he would support a cost-of-living pay raise this year for Congressmen. It seems Mendel is finding his $42,500-a-year salary too hard to stretch. Davis cited plane tickets to get from Washington to his home district as the need for more money. Congressmen already get 18 trips each year at the taxpayers' expense, but Davis says he makes many more trips than that, trips that he must pay for out of his own pocket. Cutting down the number of trips is not a viable alternative, Davis said, because it would hurt his contact with people in his home district. Judging from his support for a Congressional pay raise at a time when many people are just happy to have a job, Mendel's contact isn't so good right now. Celumnnists BILL GRANT MOBY SALANUDDIN Staff Writers ERIC ANDERSON ROBERT ATCHISON BILLY BAKER WILLIAM BAKER RAY COOPER MARK OILLARD TERRY DUQAr MAR ION ELLIOTT INEZ FRASIER S1D GRIPFIN SHIRLEY MCMORRIs' GEORGE MORRIS MARK MORROW LEE POWELL LARRY ROTH GLENN SAWICKI WILL STEPHENS MICKEY TRIMARCHI KAYE WOODIE______________I